From: "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What all do I need to take care of, to shift the entire set of users > from mbox to Maildir?
1. Take the machine into single user mode. 2. Configure your MDA to deliver into user's Maildir repository. 3. Mass convert existing mbox to Maildir using available scripts. 4. Go into multi user mode. > The MUA's commonly used are mutt, pine, mh. Lots > of users use IMAP to access mails from their own machines. What part of > it can be done by the sysads, and what is the minimum that the users > have to do? Ideally, with the above approach the user does not have to do anything. > Is it true that shifting to Maildir will greatly improve IMAP > performance? Currently, the delay in opening a mailbox with a few > thousand messages is noticeable in minutes. Will that improve with > Maildirs? It totally depends on which overhead - opening one mbox file and parsing it or opening multiple Maildir files - is slower. IMO, both are slow when dealing with especially huge folders. You might consider looking into Cyrus IMAP as well. It has a non-standard format of storing mail that is sort of like Maildir. But the problem there would be user's can only read mail through the IMAP (i.e you cannot use mutt locally on the machine to read off /var/spool/mail or ~/Mail). Thaths ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
